Easter

Mighty Makenna

Sorry this post doesn't have any pictures. I'll try to take some this week. Just thought you'd like an update on Makenna's new activities. Now that she has rolling, sitting, and standing (holding onto something) under her belt, she is trying to master crawling and climbing. Right now she looks like an inchworm, but she is officially mobile. She can't go as fast as she'd like so she still gets frustrated, but it won't be long!
And since she is now a belly sleeper, she wakes up and starts playing. This was fine for a while, but she figured out how to grasp the rungs and pull herself up from her belly to standing all by her little self! Seriously... she's SO strong. Soon she'll be able to beat us up! ;)
I guess this means its time to babyproof the house!

Family Photo

Little Miss Hollywood

My favorite picture so far!! And yes... she leaves them on. I think she likes the world through green lenses.

cousins

First of all, Miss Sadie and her big happy face! I don't know if it was because of Makenna's fun jumpy toy, or silly Uncle Brian, but something sure made her happy!



Here we have a lovely picture of sharing toys...


And here they are sharing fingers...

Too tired to play

She was playing one minute... sleeping the next. Seriously.

Ball State Day

On our way to Nashville, we stopped by Grammy's office to visit everyone who gave me such nice gifts... well... they gave gifts to Mommy but they were for me... including my shirt! She took me around and introduced me to lots of nice people. Go Cards!

Makenna's First Road Trip!

We went to Nashville a couple weeks ago on a spontaneous vacation to visit Aunt Amy & Uncle Steve! We thought it would only be appropriate to take the picture in the car, since she spent to much time there. Ahhh car/roadtrip pictures... reminds me of college!

Sittin' pretty at 5 months

Here she is at her 5 month picture. This is her dedication dress for this Sunday (minus the cute little baby shrug that goes with it!) We took family pics that day too. I'll get that one up soon, and the others we've taken this month. :)

first cereal

Hi! Big news from the little one... not only is she starting cereal (slowly), but she is also starting to teethe. She's getting so big! The doctor said she is very strong. She's almost sitting up by herself, she can pull to a stand if you hold her hands, and her little abs are developing from her back-to-belly rolling. But since she's always on the move and never satisfied, she's trying to push up on her knees and crawl. This will take a little while, but once she masters it, we'll be very busy chasing her around! Here are some first cereal pictures. She's not a big fan of it yet, but we'll keep trying!





oh yeah... i almost forgot. She is now 15 lbs. 12 oz. and 24 3/4 inches. :)

a random day in january

Hi! Do you like my hair? It's getting long, but it has an amazing quality of staying straight up on the top of my head. Mommy and Daddy think it's a fun new game to make me look like a rock star. I don't mind.


This picture looks like I got caught doing something bad. I'm innocent though - I promise! Mommy's helping me stand up. She's got my back. No really... you can see her arm holding my back! But by the time she could take the picture, my knees got tired so I had to sit down. Oh well.


That's all for now. I'll make sure they keep the fabulous pictures of me updated. And I'll let you know how big I am after my doctor's appointment next week. See you later!

nevermind

Scratch everything I said in the last post. What a difference a day can make! Yesterday Makenna learned something new... rolling over. Back to belly, belly to back, and repeat. She even did it this morning in bed (yes, I heard her in the monitor). This is now her new favorite activity, which she does for hours (literally) if you let her. She still likes standing, but I think it takes second to rolling over at the moment. So easily distracted! Also, she giggled this morning. A real giggle... not a kkkkkk sound or teradactyl squeal. I was so excited that I had to tell all of you! More pictures coming tonight... check back later!

sorry it's so late

This is Makenna's 3 month picture, taken at the Picture People. Technically it was scanned in, so it's not stellar quality, but that's OK. Note the diamond shaped darker spot on her shirt right below her chin... yeah, she spit up right before this picture. Oh well. That's what babies do.



Sorry it took so long. Hopefully her 4 month picture will make it on the blog a little quicker. As far as fun facts go, she doesn't quite giggle yet. But she does make the teradactyl squeal when she gets really excited. She did roll over once, but then apparently became more interested in trying to crawl. She still likes music, standing, eating, and holding something while she falls asleep. We had misplaced our camera for a while, but it has been found... more pictures soon!

Christmas is here and gone

I think she had a great Christmas.


She hates being on her stomach but she will stand all day. She's actually getting fairly good at it. I guess it's time for Babyproofing 101.

It's been a little busy around here.

We had a few minutes today to update so we'll get done what we can before Makenna wakes up from her nap. I've learned a few things this week not to say to a new mom. You would think that I would have figured it out in the past 11 weeks...I didn't. Here's one of them.

1. Brian - "Courtney, I told some of the cheerleaders that you would make them cookies"
Courtney - Ooh...that sounds like fun, how many?
Brian - 13 dozen (First Mistake)
Courtney - Ouch! That's a lot...what kind
Brian - Star shaped frosted sugar cookies. (Mistake Number 2)
Courtney - are you serious.



This is where it got bad...the transcript is no longer available...oops

and now for the show.

poop face!

Well, that should satiate your needs for a few days.

I would like to think we are done with decorating but I bet I'm wrong. I think Courtney wants this. We don't have much else this time around. We just finished our third thanksgiving dinner in three days and for the last I cooked a delicious turken and a wonderfully moist apple cranberry stuffing. De-lish-us.

I can't hum the Ohio State fight song in words.

Well, normally I don't feel the need to let people know they were wrong but I think Abby just needs to know Jesus was a Buckeye so she should be too!

I was very pleased to know that our little one knows class when she sees it. She wouldn't let me put on anything but this amazing little outfit. I tried to put a Michigan outfit on her but she just pooped on it. It made me happy.
I was trying to get her to put up the #1 sign but it didn't work.

Rambling on and on...

Do I like Christmas?...I think that question is a little misleading. Do I enjoy celebrating Christ's birth? yes. Do I see the need to continually teach the next generation about what this holiday means? yes. That's not the point. Our tree is up. That's the point. I have never put any decorations up before Thanksgiving before and hope to never do it again but we needed to take a picture for a supposed Christmas card from our office. (You'll see it below) It made sense to put the tree up a few days before turkey day for the picture. I don't have a problem with the "Reason for the Season" but I haven't figured out why Target can't just have a "Holiday Sale". I guessed I could have missed how the new Tickle Me Elmo being 10% off has anything to do with Jesus birth.

Sorry about that...I have removed myself from my wee little soapbox.
and now I digress...on with the picture!!!


Did I mention that our neighbor is going to try to get first place in Christmas decorating? He is. AND, our cul-de-sac won last year for the best decorated street. I knew we weren't going to beat Next-door-Barry, (I'm cheap and don't like tacky decorations) so I asked what I needed to do to be the next-to-least decorated house. That way it's not my fault if we lose...it's the guy who I beat.

Anyway, Enjoy the picture that started this whole rambling.

Courtney made this.

Smiling Baby!!!

What do ya know...she does smile. Parenting is getting to be more fun. She does stuff other than poop, eat and cry!!!

The middle picture is my favorite because she reminds me of a turtle...or a fat Chinese man. Take your pick.

(And no I didn't squeeze her neck in the second picture, Dad)